I juiced about 15-10 years ago, purely for aesthetic reasons. I did crazy stuff like 36 month cycles, mixed proper "juice" with halotestin (god bless HT - that stuff brought me closer to God that anything else I've ever experienced. Not so much closer as convinced me I was...) and just plain abused the drugs. None of this was illegal at the time (in the UK) but if I'd been an athlete it would have barred me from competition. For a while.
Like most things, concern about steroids is misplaced. You may be able to point me to a relative who went berserk, killed his girlfriend and kid before killing himself, but millions more die from automobile accidents. Nobody wants to ban the car.
Control of drugs, of any kind, is pointless. I appreciate that controlling who is exposed to drugs is important but trying to stop people doing what they want with their bodies is pointless, or more accurately it only serves to empower those who want to control the access to these drugs. Or, indeed, access to anything.
These days I'm a comfortable 220 pounds, carrying a little extra weight, but feeling far better than I did when I was 18, 6 foot tall and weighed 140 pounds, dripping wet.
And, for the record, I stopped using anabolic steroids because I got into a couple of fights at work. Sweet sweet HT. Woke me up with a hard-on, convinced I was God just ready to fuck the world. When my Greek pharmacist in Thessaloniki (maybe - been a while - I went inter-rainling there in the 90s and apparently they made wine there too) got rattled by EU moves to control roids I stopped using them . By then I'd gotten to where I wanted to so it wasn't a wrench.
" They fought the Germans, they fought the Russians, they fought the communists and now they have beaten off the bureaucrats."
They just can't get along with anybody.
Anarchy Online went one better and gave away both the initial game and a year's subscription. The free content is the original game but there have been three expansions since which you need to subscribe to to get access. Other games are now offering totally free access (like Guildwars) but they're banking on you having to pay for upgraded content to keep playing with your friends.
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I juiced about 15-10 years ago, purely for aesthetic reasons. I did crazy stuff like 36 month cycles, mixed proper "juice" with halotestin (god bless HT - that stuff brought me closer to God that anything else I've ever experienced. Not so much closer as convinced me I was...) and just plain abused the drugs. None of this was illegal at the time (in the UK) but if I'd been an athlete it would have barred me from competition. For a while. Like most things, concern about steroids is misplaced. You may be able to point me to a relative who went berserk, killed his girlfriend and kid before killing himself, but millions more die from automobile accidents. Nobody wants to ban the car. Control of drugs, of any kind, is pointless. I appreciate that controlling who is exposed to drugs is important but trying to stop people doing what they want with their bodies is pointless, or more accurately it only serves to empower those who want to control the access to these drugs. Or, indeed, access to anything. These days I'm a comfortable 220 pounds, carrying a little extra weight, but feeling far better than I did when I was 18, 6 foot tall and weighed 140 pounds, dripping wet. And, for the record, I stopped using anabolic steroids because I got into a couple of fights at work. Sweet sweet HT. Woke me up with a hard-on, convinced I was God just ready to fuck the world. When my Greek pharmacist in Thessaloniki (maybe - been a while - I went inter-rainling there in the 90s and apparently they made wine there too) got rattled by EU moves to control roids I stopped using them . By then I'd gotten to where I wanted to so it wasn't a wrench.
" They fought the Germans, they fought the Russians, they fought the communists and now they have beaten off the bureaucrats." They just can't get along with anybody.
Anarchy Online went one better and gave away both the initial game and a year's subscription. The free content is the original game but there have been three expansions since which you need to subscribe to to get access. Other games are now offering totally free access (like Guildwars) but they're banking on you having to pay for upgraded content to keep playing with your friends.